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What Do We Do Now?
I’m embarrassed that my last post–first thing in the morning on the day after the election–was about food sensitivity testing. That’s not at all what I was thinking about at that time. I had written the post the weekend prior and scheduled it to run on Wednesday without connecting the dots about what day Wednesday was.
I am feeling too many things. I don’t even know how to process them all in this space. I’ve had o step away for a very long time to deal with my grief privately.Sometimes bullet points help me when I’m feeling blocked:
- I am ashamed that I had my head in the sand
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Update on Montessori For All
Those of you who have been around these parts for a while have heard me talk about my dream to start a non-profit organization that would open Austin’s first public Montessori school and then open other public Montessori schools in diverse cities across the U.S. I wrote many posts about “dwelling in possibility.” If you’re interested, you can read all about it (along with other cool public Montessori stuff happening) in an article from One Day Magazine called: “How a Montessori Movement is Reinventing Public Schools.” It’s been a lot of years in the making and has required a lot of sacrifice, but I’m so honored to get to… Read More -
Racially Integrated Schools
I’m embarrassed to say that I just now got around to listening to the This American Life episodes about the importance of racially integrating our schools called, “The Problem We All Live with” (Part One and Part Two).Here’s the synopsis:Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent
education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids.
But there’s one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence
that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district
that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program. First
of a two-part series.I started my career working with nearly 100%… Read More
